FM-DX-peditions in Utö-island in SW-Finland and in Virolahti in SE-Finland

Monday, 16 March 2009

Next Utö FM-peditions will be 22.6. - 5.7.2009

FM-DX-peditions to Utö this summer will be from Saturday 20th June till Sunday 5th July 2009. Totally 15 days for station-hunting with 2 different groups!

First time there will be four listeners at the same time - and for two days even six! This is not a problem as we will have 6 antennas anyway (3 x V + 3 x H) and there is enough space in the houses. All listeners have newSony XDR-F1HD-receivers so there will be also less interferencies (no IF-carrier from Sony).

The first group is Marko Brask (MB, Espoo) and Otso Ylönen (OSY, Salo) from 20 - 28.6.2009.The participants of the 2nd group are Harri Kujala (HKU, Naantali), Jukka Soini (JJS, Kurikka), Jussi Suokas (JUS, Joensuu) and as new one: Jukka Kotovirta (JTK, Helsinki). All very experienced FM-DXers. They will be in Utö between 26.6 - 5.7.2009.Totally two weeks monitoring time. Somebody will hear something...

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Hello from Utö!We arrived here on the island today after noon in a magnificent weather. The following hours we spent by setting up two six metre masts in in the front of our nice cottage. Both were equipped with two 8 element Triax FM8 antennas: the upper one in vertical and the lower one in horizontal orientation.Stations we heard during our first bandscan were typical for a low-level Baltic Sea tropo, from Sweden (90.2 Skärgårdsradion with a nice signal), Poland (95.7 & 98.4), Lithuania (Russkoye R and tent. Ziniu R) and others.Stations we heard during our first bandscan were typical for a low-level Baltic Sea tropo, from Sweden (90.2 Skärgårdsradion with a nice signal), Poland (95.7 & 98.4), Lithuania (Russkoye R and tent. Ziniu R) and others.The band feels generally "empty" in comparison to what it is today in Southern Finland. On an Es opening this would certainly be interesting.A slight source of interference was loacated to be the WLAN base station in the cottage. We will see if something can be done to it on Tuesday. Sending this report was delayed until Tuesday morning because of connectivity problems with the very base station.